Shipping Containers Plunge Overboard as Supply Race Raises Risks

Re:Shipping Containers Plunge Overboard as Supply Race Raise... by karlkloss on Friday April 30, 2021 @03:38AM (#26990747)

"millions of dollars of cargo sinking to the bottom of the ocean"

If only that were true. Many containers are too light to sink to the bottom, instead they float slightly above or below the surface, posing a tremendious danger to smaller boats. And some of them float for years.

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Re:Shipping Containers Plunge Overboard as Supply Race Raise... by stevecat on Friday April 30, 2021 @05:42AM (#26991466)

All Is Lost[1] follows Robert Redford after a floating shipping container crashes into his yacht. It's very good but a rather harrowing film!

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2017038/

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Re:Shipping Containers Plunge Overboard as Supply Race Raise... by bbarnett on Friday April 30, 2021 @05:55AM (#26991527)

An interesting part is, he essentially does not speak in the film. Perhaps 3 sentences after it starts, all in a brief 1 minute period.

Yet it plays well, and I think really shows off his talent. I'm not sure many other actors could handle such a role.

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Re:Shipping Containers Plunge Overboard as Supply Race Raise... by mauvehaus on Friday April 30, 2021 @07:44AM (#26992172)

If you want a true account of survival at sea, I highly recommend Adrift [0] (the book, not the movie). The author's boat was holed by a collision with an unknown object, which he suspected to be a whale, but was unable to confirm. He then proceeded to spend 76 days surviving in an inflatable life raft. I suspect it influenced the premise and plot of the movie somewhat.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrift:_Seventy-six_Days_Los...

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Re:Shipping Containers Plunge Overboard as Supply Race Raise... by Tade0 on Friday April 30, 2021 @03:58AM (#26990843)

IIRC they do that at their maximum gross weight as well, so an immediately sinking container would be very suspicious.

Then again I don't know how watertight these things are, because I've only ever seen decommissioned ones from the inside.

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Re:Shipping Containers Plunge Overboard as Supply Race Raise... by macmac on Friday April 30, 2021 @04:45AM (#26991132)

They often stay floating for months.

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Re:Shipping Containers Plunge Overboard as Supply Race Raise... by rhn_mk1 on Friday April 30, 2021 @05:57AM (#26991544)

Is anyone trying to fish them out?

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